Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

From: Aurelien Bompard <gauret free fr>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:12:45 +0100

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Do what's necessary. If you no longer need the older libkexif, because
> you would rebuild its dependencies against the newer libkexif, you
> could simply upgrade and need not worry about moving the old one into
> a package like likexif0.
I see. That's what I'm going to do beacause by chance I also maintain the
applications depending on libkexif.
The point of my post is not to solve my own problem, but rather to extract a
policy for new packagers running into this problem.
So the unofficial "policy" about this is to keep the regular name across
upgrades, and to provide an rpm with the soname in the "Name" tag for older
versions (if needed). OK, fine.
Aurélien
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